At the Spirit Transmission Tower headquarters, training ground.
When Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena entered through the main entrance, they saw Yuanen Yehui step forward and ask about something.
Huo Yuhao paused. "You want to know how to qualify for the Spirit Soul Tower challenge?"
"Yes. I've already broken through to four rings. I'm missing a Spirit Soul."
Yuanen Yehui nodded.
Miss Nanaly had given her too much. Her cultivation progress was faster than expected. Being able to advance to four rings before the match also gave her more confidence.
Hearing Yuanen Yehui's request, Huo Yuhao thought for a moment, then asked, "Does your family not have a compatible Spirit Soul?"
"Yes, but I don't want to ask them for help." Yuanen Yehui looked away. "If they found out I was at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and intended to represent the academy to fight against Shrek, they would probably have a thing or two to say."
Her relationship with her family was not good. Otherwise, with the teaching mode of a hidden family, she would not have needed to come out to study.
"Doesn't want to ask her family for help, so she's asking Yuhao for help. So Yuhao is equivalent to Yuanen Yehui's elder?" Xie Xie watched from a distance and quipped.
"Don't say that to her face. Yuanen and her family clearly have some internal situation."
Xu Xiaoyan warned him from the side. Then she looked at Yuanen Yehui with some envy. "Yuanen is already a four-ring Spirit Ancestor at fourteen. I wonder if we'll be able to reach that by this time next year."
After half a year in Mingdu, they had all reached the age of thirteen. Yuanen Yehui was only a year older than them, yet her cultivation was about five levels ahead.
"We're probably already quite strong, aren't we?" Zhang Yangzi shrugged. "Her martial soul is the Titan Giant Ape, a super martial soul. Her family has at least a Super Douluo. She has been cultivated since childhood. Although we joined the Spirit Transmission Tower, the achievements of one lifetime cannot be compared to their accumulation over dozens or hundreds of lifetimes."
He took it relatively lightly.
Some of the geniuses at headquarters were clearly not something they could rival at present.
In the end, the gap in foundation was there. Large families had accumulated over generations. If you could keep up in one lifetime, that was already good. Why ask for too much?
"Besides, with the headquarters' star observation platform, Xiaoyan, you are improving the fastest among us. You will definitely reach the Spirit Ancestor level next year. What are you worried about?"
Xu Xiaoyan looked toward Gu Yuena and pouted. "Because Na'er is too strict."
Na'er's strictness was strange and unfamiliar. Weren't they good sisters?
Why couldn't she just coast?
"I see." Hearing Yuanen Yehui spoke of her family, Huo Yuhao slightly slightly and told her about the Spirit Soul Tower.
The Spirit Transmission Tower had a special mechanism for obtaining Spirit Souls of a thousand years or more. The Spirit Soul Tower challenge.
In the Spirit Soul Tower, each level had a guarding Spirit Soul. After a challenger successfully broke through a certain level, they could choose a Spirit Soul willing to contract with them from that level's Spirit Souls and sign a contract. Of course, even if a Spirit Soul was willing to contract, there was still a fee.
To be eligible to challenge the Spirit Soul Tower, one had to be either an internal member of the Spirit Transmission Tower or a genius approved by the Spirit Transmission Tower. Moreover, the eligibility to challenge the Spirit Soul Tower was only open to those under thirty years old who had not yet reached the Title level.
Past that age and cultivation, even internal personnel of the Spirit Transmission Tower could not enter.
"The first thirty-six levels of the Spirit Soul Tower contain Spirit Souls ranging from a thousand to ten thousand years. Levels thirty-seven to seventy-two contain Spirit Souls ranging from ten thousand to a hundred thousand years. The last thirty-six levels contain Spirit Souls of a hundred thousand years and above."
"Given the existence of auxiliary system spirit masters, up to level seventy-two, seven-person teams are allowed to challenge. However, in such cases, some Spirit Souls may be unwilling to contract because they consider the challengers' victory to be undeserved. So it's best to challenge alone."
Seeing that everyone had been drawn in by his words, Huo Yuhao paused, then continued, "You are not a Spirit Transmission Tower member, Yuanen, but you have a connection with that organization. You can apply for approval. Once approved, you can challenge the tower."
Yuanen Yehui nodded thoughtfully at this. "Thank you."
Huo Yuhao was referring to the Dark Department. She understood.
Beside them, Xie Xie, who had also been listening, swallowed. His eyes lit up. "Boss, according to you, as long as we succeed in the challenge, could we even obtain a savage beast Spirit Soul?"
"It's not that simple." Huo Yuhao shook his head slightly. "Don't forget the limitations I mentioned. Only those under thirty and below the Title level can challenge the tower. Under such circumstances, even with Battle Armor, it would be very difficult to defeat a savage beast."
And the strength of a savage beast needed no elaboration. An ordinary Level 95 Super Douluo would not claim they could defeat a savage beast.
Anyone under thirty who could win basically had the potential to reach the Limit level. So letting them obtain a savage beast Spirit Soul was not inappropriate.
Hearing this, Xie Xie looked at his own small arms and legs and temporarily abandoned his idea.
Indeed, even an eight-ring Soul Douluo wearing Battle Armor would find it hard to defeat a savage beast.
"However, the last thirty-six levels all contain Spirit Souls of a hundred thousand years and above. Our Spirit Transmission Tower's foundation is really strong."
Xie Xie sighed emotionally.
Tang Wulin and the others nodded in agreement.
Such a foundation was possessed only by the Spirit Transmission Tower.
Gu Yuena, who had been preparing to walk toward Xu Xiaoyan, paused.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao walked toward her and reminded, "It's best not to bring this up in front of spirit beasts. A portion of the Spirit Souls above a hundred thousand years in the Spirit Soul Tata died in battle."
Xie Xie, Tang Wulin, and the others were all stunned. Their pupils contracted.
Died in battle?
Who would dare to kill a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast under the Asylum of the Spirit Transmission Tower?
But Huo Yuhao had no intention of explaining. He walked directly to Gu Yuena's side.
Seeing this, Gu Yuena transmitted, "They don't know about the Abyss Plane. It's nothing. And becoming a Spirit Soul is better than completely dying."
The Abyss Plane had arrived at the Douluo Continent over six thousand years ago and began its invasion.
At that time, the Spirit Transmission Tower, as one of the Federation's four major powers, had naturally participated in the war.
Back then, the Federation had almost all its strength, mobilizing over two-thirds of its military power to launch a massive campaign against the Abyss creatures.
Through the close cooperation of Shrek Academy, the Spirit Transmission Tower, the War Temple, and Mingde Hall, the Federation mobilized twelve mecha legions and deployed an immeasurable number of fixed-type soul tool shells. Only then were they able to drive those terrifying Abyss creatures back into their original tunnels.
In that battle, more than 120,000 Federation personnel lost their lives. The losses among Spirit Souls and spirit beasts were also devastating.
The then–Tower Master of the Spirit Transmission Tower, along with three branch tower masters who had gone to reinforce the front lines, all perished in battle. The Sea God Pavilion Master suffered severe injuries. Three members of Shrek's Seven Devils from the same generation as the Sea God Pavilion Master were killed as well. Even the Abyss Emperor perished when the final seal was completed.
If not for Emperor Tian blocking Lie Di, the losses in that battle would have been even greater.
A considerable portion of the Spirit Transmission Tower's Inherited Spirit Souls of over a hundred thousand years, including its savage beast Spirit Souls, had been born in that battle.
***
Dive deeper into the story with 30+ advance chapters, available now on Patreon!
patreon.com/CNBLUE
If you're enjoying the novel, please consider leaving a review. Your support is crucial and helps the story grow immensely. Thank you!